The Family We Make December 27, 2007
Posted by Katie Oh in : Such As , trackback
gratuitous pictures of kittens are for winners, obviously. hey scout. she has taken to trying to eat my fingers.
the holiday season is so much about family. it’s interesting, if not a bit depressing for me this year. my family has shifted and is not what it used to be. it’s been stressful.
however, i have come to appreciate the family i’ve had — or, rather, the family that has been made for me. polly and fuddy in particular — they are the most interesting family relationship i have, due to our not being related by blood.. or even, really, related at all.
polly and fuddy are my half-brothers’ grandparents, and, really, i’ve come to just call them my grandparents. their daughter, nancy, is/was a bit crazy. my father married nancy when they were young and, uh, dumb, and he grew close to her parents. they divorced, and polly and fuddy seemed to be closer to my father than their own daughter. as they were my brother mikie’s grandparents, we kept on visiting them. now, it’s even more absurd — my father is slowly seeming to edge out of the picture, but my mother and i are still very close, in location and relationship, to polly and fuddy. we have no genes in common, but i am closer to them than a good portion of my blood relatives.
speaking of the blood relatives, my mother’s side of my family [actually, my only family -- my father never kept close to his family] is having their get-together tomorrow. i am very excited. it involves grab-bag gift exchanging and chasing after lots of small children. it will be glorious, i am sure. the lavelles are interesting people — irish, liberal, and sassy. well, liberal except for my cousin jen, who, from what i can gather, is only economically conservative. we’ll forgive her for that.
my father is coming to take me coat-shopping on saturday. i am wary. i saw a cute rocawear coat at gabriel brothers today [for those of you out-of-towners, think a low-budget tj maxx. if you don’t have a tj maxx... think a super-ghetto target, minus the cleanliness, and with cheaper and less match-y things.] but, alas, they only had one, in a small. i was seriously bummed. i hope they have the same coat wherever he takes me shopping. i love rocawear. anything to help jay-z build his empire. but, yeah, my dad. it’ll be awkward, i’m sure. eugh.
all in all, despite the general bummed-outedness of this holiday thusfar, i am thankful for the family i do have — the one i was born into, and the one i have made.
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